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Osho
... SAID, "FROM BIRTH TO DEATH, THIS IS HOW IT IS." RYO HAD A GREAT AWAKENING AND BOWED IN RESPECT TO BASO. BASO SAID, "WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU BOWING FOR, NIT-WIT?" RYO'S WHOLE BODY WAS NOW RUNNING WITH SWEAT. GOING BACK TO HIS TEMPLE, RYO SAID TO THE MONKS, "I THOUGHT IT COULD BE SAID THAT ALL MY LIFE, NO ONE COULD LECTURE BETTER THAN I ON THE SUTRAS. TODAY, A QUESTION BY BASO...
... to meet Baso once is to meet your death. That's how the ancients have defined the function of a master. It is not to teach you, but to kill you: it is not to impart knowledge to you, but simply to take away all knowledge from you. Even the very sense of 'I' has to disappear. The scholar was not aware that meeting Baso once is enough, twice will be too much. He asked him, "WHAT SUTRA ARE YOU...
... be asked, "Do you think then no-mind can speak?" BASO REPLIED, "YES, NO-MIND CAN LECTURE ALL RIGHT." RYO DUSTED HIS SLEEVES AND BEGAN TO TAKE HIS DEPARTURE. BASO CALLED TO HIM AND SAID, "PROFESSOR!" RYO TURNED HIS HEAD. BASO SAID, "FROM BIRTH TO DEATH, THIS IS HOW IT IS." The no-mind... Mind continuously changes: a child's mind is one thing, a young man's...
... as Poona. No-mind is your unpolluted nature, from the beginning to the end. Baso is saying, "FROM BIRTH TO DEATH, THIS IS HOW IT IS." No-mind is continuously singing its song whether you hear it or not; its music is there whether you hear it or not; its dance is there, though of course your eyes cannot see it. It is an eternal dance. RYO HAD A GREAT AWAKENING AND BOWED IN RESPECT TO BASO...
... is the most childish thing in the world. Once the master has helped you to detach your consciousness from your mind, the real teaching is very simple. No-mind is the buddha. Your ego is your immaturity. Your egolessness is your awakening. Just die to this moment deep enough so that you can have a resurrection. Then you will know that no-mind is the buddha. And it has always been so. But to those...
... NOTHING TO HIM. ...IF YOU'RE NOT SURE, DON'T ACT. ONCE YOU ACT, YOU WANDER THROUGH BIRTH AND DEATH AND REGRET HAVING NO REFUGE ..... TO UNDERSTAND THIS MIND, YOU HAVE TO ACT WITHOUT ACTING. ONLY THEN WILL YOU SEE THINGS FROM A TATHAGATA'S PERSPECTIVE. BUT WHEN YOU FIRST EMBARK ON THE PATH, YOUR AWARENESS WON'T BE FOCUSED. YOU'RE LIKELY TO SEE ALL SORTS OF STRANGE, DREAMLIKE SCENES. BUT YOU SHOULDN'T...
... mortal. Then there is death -- against life. Then there is body -- against spirit. Then everything has its polar opposite. Then there is love as a polar opposite to hate. But remember one fundamental thing: the polar opposites are exchangeable. Love can become hate, hate can become love -- and you all know it. Friendship can turn into enmity, and enmity can become friendship. You all know -- happiness...
..., also has a transforming power: whatever he touches becomes blissful. Misery comes to him and he finds in it something blissful; sadness comes to him and he finds something immensely beautiful and silent in it. Death comes to him but he finds only immortality in it. Whatever he touches is transformed, because now he has the transcendental perspective. And that is the greatest power in the world -- not...
... power over anybody, but simply your intrinsic power. Night becomes as beautiful as day; death becomes as much a celebration as life, because the man of transcendence knows that he is eternal. Lives come and go, deaths come and go. He remains untouched, he remains always beyond. This quality of remaining always beyond is the true enlightenment. Heaven and hell are nothing to him. Hence, once when...
... simply fulfilling your ego. Nobody will see it, everybody will see that you are serving the poor. But you can see that you are serving only your own egoistic idea of yourself that you are a great public servant. The whole beautiful act has gone poisonous. ONCE YOU ACT out of uncertainty YOU WANDER THROUGH BIRTH AND DEATH AND REGRET HAVING NO REFUGE .... TO UNDERSTAND THIS no- MIND, YOU HAVE TO ACT...
..., WHY PAY ATTENTION TO DOCTRINES? There have been many instances of great masters who, when they became enlightened, the first thing they did was to burn their scriptures -- their work was finished. Their whole work was somehow to indicate to you your self, your self-nature. And once you have seen your self-nature, all those doctrines are just rubbish. TO GO FROM MORTAL TO BUDDHA ...to go from death...
.... Death will come before meditation comes. Hence the emphasis on NOW -- because at least one thing is certain: death has not come, not yet. This is the moment you are certain you are alive. But who knows about the next moment? So don't postpone it even for a single moment. If you want to become an enlightened being, then NOW is the moment, then HERE is the place. IF YOU REALLY WANT TO FIND THE WAY...
... that I will not die in my sleep? Who knows, I may not get up the next morning - then what? Sleep takes you to your deeper unconscious, inwards. You may go so deep that you cannot come out!" The wife said, "Now he is driving the whole family nuts. He does not sleep, and he goes on asking everybody, 'Are you asleep?'" Now, to ask a sleeping person, "Are you asleep?" is to wake...
... to sleep." He was very happy to hear that he was a spiritual man! Everybody was thinking he was insane. I said, "You are so spiritual that death cannot do anything, any harm to you. You can sleep perfectly well." He said, "You are certain?" I said, "I am certain." He said, "Then it is okay, I will sleep. And if you say that I am a spiritual man, then...
... certainly I should not be afraid of death." The whole phenomenon of spirituality is not to be afraid of death, because death is a fiction; it does not happen. Your innermost life principle is eternal. I said, "By the way, you have found something very essential in the search of every man. Your fear is absolutely right, because you don't know that you are deathless, that you are beyond death...
.... Just go home, go to sleep, and I will come in the morning to see you." In the morning I went - the whole family was puzzled about how I had managed. That man had slept, after many days. In the morning he was very fresh and he said, "You are right. Sleep has nothing to take away; not even death has anything to take away. Death, after all, is a longer sleep." Zen, particularly in the...
... meditation before I die, because in my whole life I have come to realize that nothing is more important. So I am not giving you riches, I am not giving you any prestige or power of this world; this is going to be my only gift: you go to a Master and learn meditation. The boy was afraid to leave because the father was old and any day he could die; he was just on his death-bed. But when the father said: You...
... are absolutely patient. You will miss many things if you are patient, that is right, but you will never miss yourself. If you want to create an empire of things, possessions, then be in a hurry; then think that time is money and very precious, and use it to create more and more things. But you will be lost. When you die you will have piled a great empire of things, but dying, you will come to...
... accelerator. More people die every year in car accidents than in a world war. The Second World War was nothing, more people die every year in car accidents. People go on getting more and more speedy; then they become intoxicated. A moment comes when they are not in their minds and the speed has taken over. Start running one day and just watch what happens - a moment comes when the speed takes over: that is...
...; and if you ask about time again, it will be impossible - ninety years. The boy said: But my father is dying. The Master said: What can I do? Everybody has to die, that is not my concern. Meditation doesn't bother about who is dying or who is not dying. Never ask about time again, or else leave me. The boy watched the Master: he was the right man, the fragrance was there, the quality that exists...
... you are facing death suddenly you are in the body, the mind has disappeared. Many things appeal to you only because they give you a shock. A gambler - what is the appeal in gambling? He puts all that he has at stake; now nobody knows what is going to happen. The unexpected is waiting just around the corner. He is thrilled and he cannot think - thinking leaves for a moment. When the dice fall on the...
... him, "Don't be worried, because never in the whole history of shipping has anybody died of sea sickness." Goldberg said, "Please don't say such a thing, because death is the only hope that I am living for, hoping that I will die. This sickness - and you are telling me ... You think you are consoling me, but you are taking away my only hope." Nobody wants to destroy their hope...
... away everything. All that I have got is this gun." He puts the gun on Hymie Goldberg's chest and he says, "Now, you have two alternatives: either you give me money or I give you death." There was a great silence. Even that murderer started feeling a little nervous, because Goldberg was just standing there. And he said, "Have you heard me or not?" Hymie said, "I have...
... heard, but let me think." But it is very rare to find such people who decide between money or death. Probably most people would give you the money, because anyway, if you are dead, the money will be gone. What is there to think about? But Goldberg has a thousand years of heritage. He is a perfect Jew. The ordinary criminal uses direct means. That's why he is caught. The politician uses very...
... poisoned, that man can be declared naturally dead - he is old and in the hospital. And I have every suspicion that before Ronald Reagan retires that man is going to die. Either he will retire or he will die. And they will find ways, which are very easy, to kill that man, just to get Reagan's man appointed. And the chance may never come again for a president to appoint five judges. He can change the whole...
.... This is a simple strategy in politics. But they forgot ... this Polack has completely forgotten to die. He was chosen with the hope that he would follow the tradition because he was old. But he is enjoying so much being the pope that he has been becoming younger, not older. And now all the cardinals are in a fix - what to do? And where are they going to find somebody after the Polack dies? You will...
... people. Always choose your company very intelligently. He finally came to his senses after the crucifixion. He did not die on the cross, he escaped to India. His grave is here in Kashmir. I have been to his grave. It is strange that no Christian takes note of that grave. If they take any interest in the grave it will show that Jesus died here, and they believe that after resurrection he simply went to...
.... Death will come to them not in a natural way, it will come through the traffic. They will die and they will take a few more people with themselves. They will not die alone. And when he saw a temple of the monkey god Hanuman, he was immensely impressed. This is ecology - man worshipping hungry, mangy... all kinds of animals are being worshipped in India, elephant gods.... I have always been sad that...
... closed to reality. An introverted man is just vegetating, not living. Because life needs both - a tremendous balance between the inner and the outer, between the day and the night, between life and death. They are not separate. Nowhere is there a demarcation. The introverted man is a dead man, a corpse. And the third - turning in. There is no need to turn in. It is the philosophers, the people who are...
... ecology, this is nonsense, and he was very much impressed when he saw it. But he does not understand: these cows are hungry, they are dying, their owners have disowned them because their owners cannot feed them and they are of no use anymore; neither can they give milk nor they can give more cows and bulls. On the streets they are not resting, they are simply waiting for death - hungry, uncomfortable...
... absorb them in so much quantity, it has never done it. It turns them back, and every year Bangladesh suffers. Thousands of people die, thousands of houses are destroyed. It is beyond the power of Bangladesh to do anything. If Nepal sells its trees, who are you to say anything to Nepal? And if you say anything then you have to understand that Nepal has nothing else to sell. Then feed Nepal. The ecology...
... these roots.... This earth has the capacity to feed at least five times more people than exist today - that is a scientific calculation - but these barriers should be removed. And science should be employed not in the service of death and destruction but in the service of life and love, affirmation, celebration. We are in a situation today such that either we will let these rotten politicians and...
... Shah killed three million people. Adolf Hitler killed eight million people. But if Mahatma Gandhi and Fukuora are to be followed, they will kill at least five billion people. The whole earth will be full of corpses. Back to nature is simply back to death. If humanity decides to go back to nature, I will suggest then first do one thing: dig your grave, prepare it, because there is nobody else who is...
... the richest color. Seven colors meeting and merging create the white. And black is not a color, it is the absence of all seven colors. That's why down the centuries, around the world, death has been conceived as black - because it is the absence of life, the absence of everything. Why have Christians chosen the black robe as their habit? They are not messengers of God on the earth, they are the...
... messengers of death! Their black robe indicates their intention. They are all Reverend Jim Joneses; they want to turn this whole earth into a Jonestown. He is talking about my clothes. I use all the colors. The rainbow is my love. I want finally to give all my sannyasins rainbow dresses. I am waiting for the right time. First I want you, through your red dress, to be identified: that you are not part of...
... find a single man in the world who has lived twenty years without money. I have not even touched money for twenty years - not that I am against money. I have not seen a dollar yet, although for years I have been in America. And I don't think there is any possibility for me to see a dollar before I die. You talk about Rolls Royces. I don't own them. And why do you ask about Mother Teresa, Jesus Christ...
... - just ready to fight. By some mistake, he entered paradise when he died. It must have been a mistake - even angels of death are not infallible. Somebody else was wanted, but they took him there. He was so miserable there! He had been a porter on the station, and he was very happy - the whole day working and then drinking, and then finding some woman. And doing everything.... In paradise there was...
... friend. I asked Ramdas, "If even mosquitoes have enough sensibility not to come close to a person who is painted with kerosene oil - it stinks, even a mosquito is not ready, even though he may die without food - what about the man? How can he sleep with this smell?" But those who did that were great saints. You will be surprised to know - particularly this clergyman - that in Mahatma Gandhi's...
... not as suicidal as your Jesus Christ was. He had absolute knowledge that that day he was going to be caught. What was the need for him to go to Jerusalem, unless he was attracted towards death? He had a very great death instinct in him. I don't have any suicidal instinct in me. Both things disappeared together: the desire for eternal life and the desire to commit suicide. They are two sides of the...
...; The cross made a great impact, aroused sympathy towards him, just as my Roll Royces and my watches arouse in you jealousy, my clothes create jealousy. But if I was hanging on a cross, then this clergyman would have been at my feet praying to God. It is strange but true, that you are sympathetic to misery, to poverty, to sickness, to death. Have you ever thought what it means? You are never...
... passes almost through death when the child is born. And you think she is weaker than man? Women live longer than men all over the world; the difference is of five years. If man lives on average seventy years, the woman lives on average seventy-five years. Strange, the weaker sex lives longer. Man is more prone to sicknesses, diseases, infections, than woman. And the difference is not small, it is...
... gardener, or a farmer - you are bound to fall into laziness. And laziness is a slow death. You cannot live life abundantly if you are lazy; life needs strength, overflowing energy. You cannot even love, because you don't have any juice to share. You are becoming a dry bone. I have been receiving letters from women sannyasins, asking, "What is happening? In the whole world, man chases the woman. Here...
... when the child is born.... You cannot conceive what they do. They dip the child into ice-cold water nine times. A very strange thing! Nine children die; only one survives out of ten. But I know their reason. In Tibet, to survive you will need immense strength against the cold. It is icy cold all around. It is better to die in the very beginning, better to get out of the race. Otherwise, you will be...
... percent of children survive, ninety percent die in that ice-cold dipping. But those who survive are immensely strong. The same is the situation in Africa. They have to be strong, the sun is too much. Their blackness is really a protection against the sun. Their strength has been always a point of jealousy in white people's minds; in fact, the white man has always felt inferior. And just to destroy that...
... a question about meditation? He will say, "Save me! Take me out of the water!" You can tell him, "The best way is meditation. Don't be worried about the water, everybody has to die someday. Die meditatively. Celebrate! And I will participate in celebration from the bank. I will dance and sing and play on the guitar, and you die joyously." That man is not going to forgive you...
... be a communist? He can think better than Karl Marx - and Karl Marx is not a great thinker. He can live so long that he is not in a hurry about anything; patient, ready to wait - he has time enough. Just think of Albert Einstein living three hundred years. He would have given miracles to the world. But because he wa living in an accidental body, he had to die. We can discard disease, old age. We can...
... program life in every way. We can even program the life of the child, so that when he wants to die only then will he die; otherwise he can go on living. If he feels that there are still juices that he has not tasted, if he feels there are still dimensions that he has not explored, if he feels that more time is needed, then he is the master, to decide how long to live. Up to now, you have lived seventy...
.... Be fascinated with the New Man! The New Man must have a new kind of birth. The New Man must have a new kind of life, a new kind of love, a new kind of death. He will be new in every possible way. He will replace the old models who are overcrowding the earth - junkyards. They are not needed. It is a simple process of programming the first cell. And only the first cell can be programmed, because then...
... it goes on reproducing itself - that is an autonomous process. You can program it for everything. Right now it is difficult; it is programmed for all kinds of diseases, it is programmed for death, old age. You can't have any control over it. There is no way to change the program now, because all the cells have the same program. If they are programmed for a particular disease that you get by...
... and really desires to be a plumber, he may become a plumber. But this brain he has developed, which is unique.... You may not be aware that he himself donated his brain to Harvard University: "When I die, my brain should be studied as carefully as possible to find what the difference is between my brain and other people's brain." And there is a great distance. He himself was curious. He...
... is now the pope has deceived - Polacks are Polacks. Perhaps he has forgotten to die! Otherwise, popes have been dying after one year, two years, three years at the most. So it gave chances to other people. Martin Luther tried many times, but he was never chosen. Then he rebelled. That's why his religion is called Protestantism. It is a protest - the protest of a politician, the protest of a German...
... your capacities to their peak. You are ready to die, but you are not going to compromise. Against me and the sannyasins, in Oregon, they have a slogan written on the trucks, buses - anywhere they can find a place. The slogan is: It is better to be dead than red. I would like you to remember: It is certainly better to be dead than not to be red! Generated by PreciseInfo ™ ...
... out of China. And we have made a special guesthouse for you with every comfort, luxury, according to the orders from the emperor. You stay and you write whatever you have experienced, what the truth is that you have realized which has attracted so many people." Because he wanted to reach quickly to the Himalayas -- his death was coming closer and he wanted to die in the Himalayas ... The...
... losing his most precious nature, his most precious meditative consciousness. It is true, just as Jesus says: Unless you are born again you will not attain the kingdom of God. He does not mean that first you have to die and be born again; he is only using a metaphor. You have to die as a thinker, as a mind, and you have to be reborn only as an innocent consciousness, just like a child. Once a man has...
... independence, your individuality is being curtailed, death comes before meditation comes. Life has been a wastage. Unless you attain to meditation, you have not really lived. I have heard about a man who only became aware that he was alive when he died. Suddenly an awakening ... "My God, I have been alive, but now it is too late." Perhaps this may be true not just about one man -- it may be true...
... everything. You need some distance, you need to lose it; only then will you understand what you had. And this is not only true about your money. This is more true about your life itself: because you have it, you have started taking it for granted. It is too obvious it is yours. You are not at all concerned that tomorrow it may not be yours, or even the next second." The day you become aware that death...
...: "Don't be worried, I have also been through the same stage; there is nothing to be feared. It is not death. This nothingness is not death; this nothingness is purest life." IF YOUR FAITH IS THOROUGHGOING, JUST KEEP CONTEMPLATING WHAT'S BEFORE THE THOUGHT OF SEEKING INSTRUCTION IN THE DIRECT ESSENTIALS ARISES. SUDDENLY YOU WILL AWAKEN FROM YOUR DREAM, AND THERE WON'T BE ANY MISTAKE ABOUT IT...
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